One who worships God with depth of understanding rather than superficially shows by his way of life that he has risen above thoughtless satisfaction in traditional beliefs and ritual and has a real reason for devotion. Our great Exemplar, Christ Jesus, showed the true motivation for worship when he taught his followers to pray: "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth" (Luke 11:2). The Master made it plain by his ministry that his reason for devotion was that there was heaven to reveal and the all-governing power of the divine will to be proved.
Jesus reached great depth of spiritual understanding and made his marvelous works the proof of that depth. He demonstrated divine power. But for mankind to express this power he said they must repent of materialism and be regenerated—born anew. It is failure to follow his instructions that keeps worship on a superficial plane, bereft of the power that should accompany it. With evident ease the Master healed the victims of disease, blindness, deafness, deformity, insanity; and with the same unlabored effort he raised the dead. In every case he applied the law of Love to problems imposed by the carnal, or mortal, mind. The force of the truth at work in him had power to silence human will and prove the unreality of all that goes against the Father's will for His son, His likeness.
Christian Science expounds the method of the Master, and it has brought about a great number of healings of sin and of the evils that plague humanity. In taking up this religion, students find it comparatively easy to believe the wonderful truths of being which it reveals: the allness of God, the spiritual perfection of man, the unseverable relation of man to God, and the mental nature of being.
